Mark 14:5

This perfume could have been sold for more than a year’s wages, and the money given to the poor.”

Open English Bible (US)

In The King James Version

For it might have been sold for more than three hundred pence, and have been given to the poor. And they murmured against her.

In Context

4Some of those who were present said to one another indignantly, “Why has the perfume been wasted like this?

6“Leave her alone,” said Jesus, as they began to find fault with her, “why are you troubling her? This is a beautiful deed that she has done for me.

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Cross References

Matthew 18:28But, on going out, that same servant came upon one of his fellow servants who owed him a hundred silver coins. Seizing him by the throat, he said ‘Pay what you owe me.’

Matthew 26:9“It could have been sold for a large sum, and the money given to poor people.”

John 6:7“Even if we spent a years’ wages on bread,” answered Philip, “it would not be enough for each of them to have a little.”

John 12:5“Why was not this perfume sold for a year’s wages, and the money given to poor people?”

1 Corinthians 10:10And do not murmur, as some of them murmured, and so were destroyed by the angel of death.

Matthew Henry on Mark 14:2-12

Christ Anointed at Bethany; Judas Engages to Betray Christ. 1 After two days was the feast of the passover, and of unleavened bread: and the chief priests and the scribes sought how they might take him by craft, and put him to death. 2 But they said, Not on the feast day, lest there be an uproar of the people. 3 And being in Bethany in the house of Simon the leper, as he sat at meat, there came a woman having an alabaster box of ointment of spikenard very precious; and she brake the box, and poured it on his head.… Read the whole commentary →

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